sentimental - Story 129340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Coffee Bean is closing." This phrase, spoken by the barista this morning, echoed in Thomas's mind as he walked away, his usual cup of coffee now feeling incomplete. He had sat there, every single day for ten years.

He knew all the regulars by name, their stories, their joys, their sorrows. He had watched the seasons change outside the window.

He felt a pang, a deep sense of loss. He knew he had to go back. To say goodbye. To absorb one last moment.

Emotion: sentimental

Cluster: Nostalgia / Reflection

PC1 (Valence): 0.89 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sentimental. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sentimental stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sentimental emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sentimental vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.677
`fondly`	0.567
`memories`	0.503
`曾`	0.488
`reminis`	0.466

Suppressed:

`either`	-0.515
`or`	-0.488
`[]`	-0.473
`-`	-0.408
`не`	-0.396